This paper investigates how the tying of complementary products can be used to preserve and extend monopoly positions …. We first show how a firm that is a monopolist of a product in the current period can use tying to preserve its monopoly … monopoly position into a newly emerging market. The analysis focuses on the importance of entry costs and network externalities …

Previous work has claimed that monopoly power facilitates the provision of credit, since monopolists are better able to … creditworthiness, monopoly power may reduce credit provision because hold up problems ex post will deter borrowers from investing in … establishing creditworthiness. Empirically, we examine the relationship between monopoly power and credit provision, using data on …

equilibrium (S,s) model of durable demand. We analyze both competitive and monopoly supply. We show that equilibrium interactions …

are different in some respects from those of standard consumption theory. Specifically, rather than choose an optimal path …) generally produce results that are in line with the predictions of the theory …